The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys (Broadview Editions) Reprint edition by Owenson, (Lady Morgan) Sydney (2013) Paperback

by Sydney Owenson Morgan

An important and long-overlooked Irish classic, edited by an important scholar of Irish and Romantic literature.

Genres: Classics

Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson, was an Irish novelist.

She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She began her career with a precocious volume of poems. She collected Irish tunes, for which she composed the words, thus setting a fashion adopted with signal success by Thomas Moore. Her St. Clair (1804), a novel of ill-judged marriage, ill-starred love, and impassioned nature-worship, in which the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was apparent, at once attracted attention.

Reviews

[Julia Welch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I adore this book. I am studying it for my thesis. It is worth struggling through the epistolary form at the beginning of the text to read the rest of the novel.